Apparatus and method for right management of digital contents

ABSTRACT

Disclosed is an apparatus for right management of digital contents includes: a digital right manager that creates a usage right of digital contents on the basis of received right information; and a contents manager that provides the digital contents in accordance with the created usage right, wherein the contents manager includes a contents packing unit that receives the usage right created from the digital right manager, and extracts and packages components of the digital contents in accordance with the usage right, and a contents providing unit that receives packaged digital contents created from the contents packaging unit and provides the digital contents to a contents using device.

RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present application claims priority to Korean Patent ApplicationSerial Number 10-2008-116974, filed on Nov. 24, 2008 and Korean PatentApplication Serial Number 10-2009-085419, filed on Sep. 10, 2009, theentirety of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for accesscontrol and usage-right management of digital contents which should bedifferentially used in accordance with right information including ausage time, space, a user, etc., and more particularly, to a technologyof improving compatibility of digital contents by issuing a usage rightwithout limiting use of the digital contents and constructing a digitalright management system for all or parts of the contents.

2. Description of the Related Art

With the development of wired/wireless communication means and thedevelopment of mobile communication means, digital contents businessesare also rapidly being developed. According to the developments, digitalcontents are also being used in various forms. Currently, research on atechnology of facilitating management of the digital contents byallowing use of the digital contents at a predetermined time band, atechnology of facilitating protection of copyright of the digitalcontents, etc. by allowing specific users to use the digital contents, atechnology of facilitating protection of the digital contents byallowing use of the digital contents only in a predetermined space ordomain, etc. are being conducted. That is, the technologies refer to theso-called digital right management (DRM) technology.

The research of the DRM technology is continuously progressing day byday. In particular, a space or time DRM technology is presently beingresearched. However, the existing DRM technology has a characteristic inthat it is made through a method of limiting use of digital contentssuch as specific software, specific website, or a specific multimediaobject, etc. in accordance with temporal and spatial informationacquired from the outside.

However, the DRM technologies in the related art have the followingproblems. For example, numerous users should be examined in order tolimit use of the contents and a problem in compatibility is indicated inorder to apply the contents to DRM technologies managed in a pluralityof other locations or times. Further, since only the DRM technology forthe contents themselves is provided, a DRM technology for partial dataof the contents for applying the DRM technology to a part of a mapincluding information on military secrets, etc. in, for example, a DRMtechnology for the map is not provided. Therefore, the range of contentsto which the DRM technology will be applied is limited, such as mapcontents, security contents, text contents, etc. which requireapplication of the DRM technology to some components of the digitalcontents.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, there is an object ofthe present invention to facilitate management by a digital rightmanager by issuing a usage right for digital contents to a user insteadof limiting use of the digital contents to which a DRM technology isapplied and improve intercompatibility of various DRM contents bydirectly collecting the standard for the usage right by using acollecting device to collect a plurality of right-related informationsuch as a time, a space, a user, etc. and packaging the digital contentswhile issuing the resultant usage right.

Further, there is another object of the present invention to use a DRMtechnology in a wider range by facilitating management of contents thatshould be intercepted due to security of predetermined contents throughvarying constituent components of digital contents which can bedownloaded in one content in accordance with a usage right of thedigital contents at the time of downloading the digital contents whileenabling management of a right for parts of one digital contents whilemanaging a right for all digital contents.

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an apparatus for rightmanagement of digital contents according to an aspect of the presentinvention includes a digital right manager that creates a usage right ofdigital contents on the basis of received right information; and acontents manager that provides the digital contents in accordance withthe created usage right, wherein the contents manager includes acontents packing unit that receives the usage right created from thedigital right manager, and extracts and packages components of thedigital contents in accordance with the usage right, and a contentsproviding unit that receives packaged digital contents created from thecontents packaging unit and provides the digital contents to a contentsusing device.

Further, a method for right management of digital contents according toanother aspect of the present invention includes a digital right managerthat creates a usage right of digital contents on the basis of receivedright information and a contents manager that provides the digitalcontents in accordance with the created usage right includes allowingthe digital right manager to collect usage right information of thedigital contents and create the usage right of the digital contents onthe basis of the usage right information of the digital contents; andallowing the contents manager to extract and package components of thedigital contents on the basis of the usage right and provide thepackaged digital contents to a contents using device.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus and amethod for right management of digital contents can reduce the load ofthe right management apparatus and improve the compatibility of DRMtarget contents by issuing a usage right of contents through judgment inthe digital contents right management apparatus and thus allowing use ofall contents or some of the contents. Further, since right managementfor some of the contents becomes available, a DRM technology can beeffectively applied even to digital contents requiring securitymanagement, which include navigation, web map, and text information,thereby extending the application range of the DRM technology.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a diagram of an apparatus for right management of digitalcontents according to an embodiment of the present invention and anexample of digital contents packaging according to an embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIG. 2 shows an example of a configuration of a contents storing unit inan apparatus for right management of digital contents according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows an example of a configuration of a digital right manager inan apparatus for right management of digital contents according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows an example of a configuration of a contents manager in anapparatus for right management of digital contents according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows an example of a configuration of a contents packaging unitincluded in a contents manager in an apparatus for right management ofdigital contents according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 shows an example of level classification for each component ofcontents for map contents among digital contents;

FIG. 7 shows an example of packaging for each component of contents byan apparatus and a method for right management of digital contentsaccording to an embodiment of the present invention; and

FIG. 8 shows a flowchart of a method for right management of digitalcontents according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, referring to FIG. 1, a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention will be described.

FIG. 1 shows a diagram of an apparatus for right management of digitalcontents according to an embodiment of the present invention and anexample of digital contents packaging according to an embodiment of thepresent invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the apparatus for right management of digitalcontents according to the embodiment of the present invention includes acontents manager 102 that packages (packaging means converting thedigital contents into data by corresponding the right information andthe digital contents so as to provide the digital contents, which is atarget for digital right management, in accordance with the usage right)the digital contents by extracting components of contents in accordancewith a usage right based on a plurality of right information on thedigital content and provides the packaged digital contents to a contentsusing device 103 or a contents storing unit 100, a digital right manager101 that issues and manages the usage right of the digital contents inaccordance with a plurality of conditions on the basis of a request fromthe contents using device 103 or a request from the contents manager 102and collects information on use right of a plurality of digital contentsin order to issue the usage right of the digital contents, and thecontents storing unit 100 that stores the packaged digital contents inthe contents manager 102 in accordance with the usage right whileproviding the digital contents which is a packaging target to thecontents manager 102 and provides the stored packaged digital contentsin accordance with the request from the contents manager 102.

Further, referring to FIG. 1, an example of digital contents packaged bya right management system of the digital contents according to anembodiment of the present invention is shown. First, assuming that mapimage contents 1000 before being packaged is stored in the contentsstoring unit 100, the contents storing unit 100 provides the map imagecontents 1000 to the contents manager 102 by a request from the contentsmanager 102 and the contents manager 102 packages the received the mapimage contents 100 on the basis of information on a usage right for themap image contents 1000 received in the contents using device 103 andthe digital right manager 101. Components such as a road 1100, a park1102, a military facility 1101, a prison 1103, a police station 1108, ashopping street 1104, a restaurant 1106, a new town development area1105, and a green belt 1106 are included in the map image contents 1000before being packaged. In contrast, information on the military facility1201, the new town development area 1205, and the green belt 1207 aredeleted and not seen from the plurality of constituent components 1100,1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, and 1108 constituting the mapimage contents 1000 before being packaged in the map image contents 1000packaged by the contents manager. The packaged map image contents 1001is stored in the contents storing unit 100 or provided according to arequest from the contents using device 103.

The right information represents a plurality of information required toestablish the usage right for the digital contents. The information onthe usage right for the digital contents may include information on time(for each date or for each time), space (a geopolitical spatial space ordomain space on a wired/wireless network), and a user (including aplurality of information on general status such as age, sex, job title,occupation, etc.). The right information may be independently orcomplexly used. For example, in the map image contents 1000 and 1001 ofFIG. 1, the right information on the usage right to the packaged mapimage contents 1001 will be able to include information such as “5 hoursfrom use permission, within a current administrative district, usable byall users”, etc. The usage right is also converted into a data type incorrespondence with the right information to be generated and provided.

An example of the digital contents includes map information contents inthe embodiment of the present invention. The digital contents may alsoinclude various multimedia data such as text data, image data, movingpicture data, audio data, etc. which can be generated by devices such asa general computer, a notebook, computers for a server, military, agovernment department, etc. for a special purpose, a portable multimediaplayer (PMP), a digital camera, a camcorder, a navigation device for avehicle and other purposes, a (global positioning system (GPS)measurement and display device, an MP3 player, etc.

Further, the digital contents have different levels for use thereof inaccordance with the usage right and components of the digital contentsare classified in accordance with the levels for the use. In theembodiment of the present invention, the map information contents areprovided as the digital contents and the components of the digitalcontents classified in accordance with the levels depending on the usageright are classified in accordance with characteristics of each terrainor building.

The contents using device 103 as a device for allowing the user to usethe digital contents which are the management target of the digitalright should download, generate, and edit the digital contents. Further,the contents using device 103 should be connected to the digital rightmanager and the contents manager through the wired/wirelesscommunication network in order to request issuance of the usage rightfor the digital contents and receive the digital contents. Examples ofthe contents using device 103 include the general computer, notebook,the computers for the server, military, government department, etc. fora special purpose, the portable multimedia player (PMP), the digitalcamera, camcorder, the navigation device for the vehicle and for otherpurposes, the global positioning system (GPS) measurement and displaydevice, the MP3 player, etc. connected to the wired/wirelesscommunication network, which can generate, store, and edit theabove-mentioned digital data.

The contents storing unit 100, as a device which receives and stores aplurality of digital contents which are the packaging target fromexternal storage media or the wired/wireless communication network,receives and stores the packaged digital contents by extracting thecomponents of the contents in the content manager 102 while providingthe plurality of digital contents which the packaging target accordingto the request from the contents manager 102, and provides the packageddigital contents to the contents manager 102 according to a request ofthe contents manager 102 for providing the packaged digital contentsbased on the request of the contents using device 103, may be installedin the same system or device as the contents manager 102 and the digitalright manager 101 or may be the computer for the server and otherstorage media connected to the wired/wireless communication networkwhich can store the digital contents which are the packaging target orthe digital contents packaged by the contents manager 102 as a databaseby using an external device, as described above.

Further, referring to FIG. 2, in another embodiment of the presentinvention, the contents storing unit 100 separately stores the digitalcontents which are the packaging target and the digital contentspackaged by the contents manager 102. The contents storing unit 100 mayinclude a digital contents storing unit 200 storing the digital contentswhich are the packaging target and a packaging contents storing unit 201storing the packaged digital contents.

The contents manager 102 and the digital right manager 101 may be thecomputer and other storage media connected to the wired/wirelesscommunication network, such as the contents storing unit 103. Inparticular, the digital right manager 101 may further include a devicethat can store the usage right for the digital contents and may beconnected to an external device that can collect usage right judgmentinformation such as time, space, user information, etc.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a configuration of a digital right manager101 in an apparatus for right management of digital contents accordingto an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the digital right manager 101 includes a rightinformation collector 300 that collects information on the time, thespace, the user, etc. which is the information of the contents usingdevice 103 according to the request of the contents using device 103 forissuing the usage right or the request of the contents manager 102 and acontroller 302 that creates the usage right by taking charge ofcalculating the level (for example, in the digital map contents requiredfor the navigation, a usage right for other map information is issuedand a map information usage right for the military facility is notissued) of the usage right of the digital contents on the basis of theinformation on the usage right of the digital contents of the contentsusing device 103 collected in the right information collector 300,judges whether or not the usage right for the digital contents isalready issued in the contents using device 103 by receiving the requestfor issuing the usage right of the digital contents with being connectedwith the contents using device and the contents manager 102 andtransmits the issuing state, and issues the created usage right of thedigital contents to the contents using device or transmits the usageright of the digital contents to the contents manager 102 according tothe request of the contents manager 102. Further, an external digitalright information collecting device 303 for providing judgment criterioninformation of the usage right of the digital contents for the contentsusing device 103 may be additionally connected to the digital rightinformation collector 300. In addition, the contents using device 103may be connected to the digital right information collector 300 in orderto receive the right information directly from the contents using device103.

The external digital right information collector 303 means an externaldevice that can the usage right judgment information such as the time,space, user information, etc. as described above and may include alldevices connected to the wired/wireless communication network, which canperform the function. The external digital right information collector303 may include, for example, a timer that can perform digital timemeasurement, a camera that can measure a predetermined space as aposition measuring device including a GPS device, a communication devicesuch as an antenna, etc. connected to a GPS satellite, a databasestorage device that can acquire the user information or a data servercomputer of a government organization, etc.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of the contentsmanager 102 that has the most important characteristic in the presentinvention and takes charge of extracting, packaging, and providing thecomponents of the digital contents on the basis of the usage right ofthe digital contents while being connected to the digital right manager101, the contents storing unit 100, and the contents using device 103.

Referring to FIG. 4, the contents manager 102 may include a contentspackaging unit 401 that extracts and packages the components of thedigital contents in correspondence with the received right informationby receiving the digital contents which is the packaging target from thecontents storing unit 103 while requesting and receiving the usage rightof the digital contents required for packaging the digital contentswhich is the packaging target and a contents providing unit 402 thatreceives the packaged digital contents from the contents packaging unit,filters and provides the packaged digital contents to the contents usingdevice 103 in accordance with a predetermined condition according to theusage right, or filters and provides the packaged digital contents tothe contents using device 103 according to the usage right by receivingthe packaged digital contents stored in the contents storing unit 100.The predetermined condition includes a case in which the digitalcontents packaged in the contents packaging unit 401 are immediatelyprovided to the contents using device 103 without being stored in thecontents storing unit 100 or a case in which since the digital contentspackaged in accordance with the usage right for the contents usingdevice 103 are stored in the contents storing unit 100, the packageddigital contents need not to be provided.

In the configuration of the contents manager 102, the contents providingunit 402 may be incorporated in the contents storing unit 100 dependingon the embodiment, the contents providing unit 402 may not exist in thecase where a packaging pattern of the digital contents stored in thecontents storing unit 100 is packaged in the state where all or some ofthe digital contents are filtered depending on a database of the alreadyaccumulated usage right, and the contents storing unit 100 and thecontents using device 103 may be connected to each other.

Further, it is preferable that the contents providing unit 402 furtherincludes a means for judging whether or not an appropriate usage rightcorresponding to the packaged digital contents is issued in addition toa communication means for downloading the contents on the basis of theusage right issued in the contents using device according to the requestof the contents using device 103 while simply transferring the contentsfor efficient execution of the present invention.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the contents providingunit 402 may further include a means for judging whether or notrequested digital contents are already provided to the contents usingdevice 103 when the contents using device 103 requests downloading thedigital contents in order to efficiently execute the present inventionin addition to the function of providing the contents and judgingwhether or not the usage right is issued. Since the digital contents canbe arbitrarily transmitted as a general rule, the digital contents an betransmitted from the contents using device 103 that receives thepackaged digital contents from the contents providing unit 402 throughdownloading, to another device. Thereafter, when the usage right isissued in the digital right manager 101 at the time when another devicerequests using the transmitted packaged digital contents, the packageddigital contents need not to be provided from the contents providingunit 402. Therefore, the contents providing unit 402 is provided with ameans for judging whether or not the packaged digital contents which isthe usage request target are already provided by receiving and analyzingthe request of the contents using device 103. In this case, when thepackaged digital contents as the usage request target are alreadypresent in the contents using device 103, the contents providing unit402 does not provide the packaged digital contents and the contentsusing device uses the usage right for using the already downloadedpackaged digital contents. Further, it is possible to perform a controlof deleting some components from or providing some components to thepackaged digital contents in accordance with the usage right issued inthe contents using device 103.

In the present invention, a schematic device diagram of a contentspackaging unit 401 that packages the digital contents on the basis ofthe digital contents and the usage right is shown in FIG. 5.

Referring to FIG. 5, the contents packaging unit 401 includes a contentsanalyzing unit 502 that performs a preparation job for creating thepackaged digital contents by analyzing components of the digitalcontents by analyzing digital contents data which is the packagingtarget and the contents creating unit 501 that receives data of theusage right of the digital contents from the right information receivingunit 400 to analyze and convert the usage right data into data forpacking the digital contents, receives the digital contents from thecontents analyzing unit 502 and extracts and packages components of thedigital contents corresponding to the usage right of the digitalcontents to create the packaged digital contents and transfer thepackaged digital contents to the contents providing unit 402.

The contents creating unit 501 may directly combine the usage rightinformation with the data of the digital contents or package the digitalcontents by marking a code on the data with respect to the usage rightinformation. In addition to the method, all types will be available inwhich the contents providing unit 402 recognizes the usage right for thedigital contents and the digital contents corresponding to the usageright and selectively provides to the contents using device 103.

In the case of the packaged digital contents created by the contentscreating unit 501, the usage right information may also be stored in aheader (data components in which the digital contents informationincluding creation time, date, code, a file name, etc. is recorded) ofthe digital contents data. Further, even in the case of some of detailsof a contents file, the usage right information may be stored in aheader of each contents file. FIGS. 6 and 7 schematically show anexample in which a technology related to the usage right of the digitalcontents is applied to some of the details of the contents file.

First, referring to FIG. 6, a structure (600) of map image contentsaccording to an embodiment of the present invention is shown. Thestructure 600 of the map image contents may include a military facility610, security information 611, information 612 on a local developmentarea, and information 613 on general areas including an apartment, aroad, a shopping street, etc. In the structure of the map imagecontents, the contents analyzing unit 502 analyzes the map imagecontents for each component and combines the components corresponding tothe usage right information of the map image contents to package the mapimage contents. Referring to a schematic structure 601 based on the datafor the packaged map image contents, the components constituting thecontents 610, 611, 612, and 613 are classified into plural levels, thatis, levels 1 to 4 and a criterion for classifying the level depends onspatial information in the embodiment of the present invention and otherusage right data includes an additional usage limit or not related tothe user, the time, etc., but another usage right is used as a maincomponent that classifies the level or plural right information is usedas the limit component at once and no one component for mainlyclassifying the level is provided.

FIG. 7 schematically an image for packaging the map image contentsdescribed in FIG. 6.

Referring to FIG. 7, the map image contents 700 which is the packagingtarget include constituent components such as a park 710, a militaryfacility 711, a road 712, a prison 713, a police station 714, a shoppingstreet 715, a new town development area 716, a restaurant 717, and agreen belt 718. When the map image contents 700 are packaged throughimage analysis and combination with the right information by thecontents packaging unit, downloadable components depend on the usageright as shown in examples of a first packaging image 701 and a secondpackaging image 702. In the first packaging image 701, componentscorresponding to a military facility 721 and a prison 723 are marked byslant lines and not shown for a space and a user that should restrictmilitary and security information (all methods to disable theinformation to be shown are available) and in the second packaging image702, economical information should be restricted, but a new towndevelopment area 736 and a green belt 738 are not shown by being markedwith the slant lines for a space, a time, a user that can use a map fora military purpose. Through diversification of contents packaging foreach right information, since the digital right management system can beapplied to all or some of the contents, applicability of the digitalright management technology will be extended.

FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of an embodiment of a method for rightmanagement of digital contents by using an apparatus for rightmanagement of digital contents according to the present invention. Theapparatus which can implement the embodiment of the method for rightmanagement of the digital contents shown in FIG. 8 may include allapparatuses that can provide the same effect in addition to theembodiment.

Referring to FIG. 8, step S1 is performed at which the contents manager102 and the digital right manager 101 receive a request for using thedigital contents through the content using device 103 of a user whowants to use the digital contents. In this case, step S2 is performed atwhich the digital right manager 101 collects information related to aplurality of usage rights of digital contents including the time, space,user information, etc. according to the requests of the contents usingdevice 103 and the user' request through the external digital rightinformation collector 303 and the right information collector 300.

Thereafter, step S3 is performed at which the right controller 302judges whether or not the effective usage right of the digital contentsis already issued in the contents using device 103. If the usage rightis not issued, step S4 is performed at which the right controller 302judges whether or not the usage right can be issued in the contentsusing device 103 based on information on the collected usage right andstep S5 is performed at which the usage right is issued in the contentsusing device 103 when the usage right can be issued. Thereafter, theprocess returns to the information collecting step S2 again. If theusage right cannot be issued, step S6 of transmitting error informationto the contents using device 103 is performed.

In the state where the usage right of the digital contents available forthe contents using device 103 is issued, the contents providing unit 402performs step S7 of judging whether or not the digital contents packagedfor each component of the contents are already present in the contentsusing device 103 on the basis of the usage right. In the state where thealready packaged digital contents are provided, step S10 of using thepackaged digital contents in accordance with the usage right or usingthe packaged digital contents by deleting or adding some components isperformed.

In the state where the packaged digital contents are not provided to thecontents using device 103, the contents providing unit 402 performs stepS8 of requesting download in accordance with the usage right of thedigital contents to the contents storing unit 102 or the contentspacking unit 401 with respect to the digital contents packaged for eachcomponent of the contents by the contents manager 101, and steps S9 and510 of using the digital contents by transmitting the digital contentsto the contents using device 103 are performed. Thereafter, returning tostep S2, the information on the usage right of the digital contents forthe contents using device 103 is continuously received and the effectiveusage right for the digital contents is managed in real time.

An apparatus and a method for right management of digital contentsaccording to an embodiment of the present invention is not just oneexample of the present invention disclosed in the appended claims and itis apparent that the appended claims is not limited. Further, it will beapparent that the equivalent invention which can achieve the same effectas the present invention is also the same as the present invention.

1. An apparatus for right management of digital contents, comprising: adigital right manager that creates a usage right of digital contents onthe basis of received right information; and a contents manager thatprovides the digital contents in accordance with the created usageright, wherein the contents manager includes: a contents packing unitthat receives the usage right created from the digital right manager,and extracts and packages components of the digital contents inaccordance with the usage right, and a contents providing unit thatreceives packaged digital contents created from the contents packagingunit and provides the packaged digital contents to a contents usingdevice.
 2. The apparatus for right management of digital contentsaccording to claim 1, wherein the components of the digital contents areclassified for each level in accordance with the usage right.
 3. Theapparatus for right management of digital contents according to claim 1,wherein the digital contents are the spatial information contents andcomponents of the spatial information contents correspond to eachterrain or building of a space.
 4. The apparatus for right management ofdigital contents according to claim 1, wherein the digital contentsinclude at least one of media of an image, an audio, a text, a movingpicture multimedia file, and a computer-readable program.
 5. Theapparatus for right management of digital contents according to claim 1,wherein the right information includes at least one of information oftime information, spatial information, and user information required forestablishing a usage right for all or some components of the digitalcontents.
 6. The apparatus for right management of digital contentsaccording to claim 1, wherein the digital right manager includes a rightinformation collector that receives the right information from anexternal right information collector.
 7. The apparatus for rightmanagement of digital contents according to claim 1, wherein the digitalright manager includes a right information collector that receives theright information from the contents using device.
 8. The apparatus forright management of digital contents according to claim 1, wherein thedigital right manager includes a right controller that provides thecreated usage right to the contents manager or the contents usingdevice.
 9. The apparatus for right management of digital contentsaccording to claim 1, further comprising: a contents storing unit thatincludes a digital contents storing unit storing the digital contentswhich are the target of packaging and a packaging contents storing unitstoring the packaged digital contents.
 10. The apparatus for rightmanagement of digital contents according to claim 1, wherein thecontents providing unit further includes a function of judging whetheror not a usage right available for the packaged digital contents ispresent in the contents using device.
 11. The apparatus for rightmanagement of digital contents according to claim 1, wherein thecontents providing unit further includes a function of judging whetheror not to provide the packaged digital contents to the contents usingdevice by judging whether or not the packaged digital contents arealready present in the contents using device.
 12. A method for rightmanagement of digital contents using an apparatus for right managementof digital contents including a digital right manager that creates ausage right of digital contents on the basis of received rightinformation and a contents manager that provides the digital contents inaccordance with the created usage right, comprising: allowing thedigital right manager to collect usage right information of the digitalcontents and create the usage right of the digital contents on the basisof the usage right information of the digital contents; and allowing thecontents manager to extract and package components of the digitalcontents on the basis of the usage right and provide the packageddigital contents to a contents using device.
 13. The method for rightmanagement of digital contents according to claim 12, wherein thecomponents of the digital contents are classified for each level inaccordance with the usage right.
 14. The method for right management ofdigital contents according to claim 12, wherein the digital contents arethe spatial information contents and components of the spatialinformation contents correspond to each terrain or building of a space.15. The method for right management of digital contents according toclaim 12, wherein the digital contents include at least one of media ofan image, audio, a text, a moving picture multimedia file, and acomputer readable program.
 16. The method for right management ofdigital contents according to claim 12, wherein the right informationincludes at least one of information of time information, spatialinformation, and user information required for establishing a usageright for each component of the digital contents.
 17. The method forright management of digital contents according to claim 12, furthercomprising: allowing the digital right manger to collect the rightinformation in order to create the usage right.
 18. The method for rightmanagement of digital contents according to claim 12, furthercomprising: storing the digital contents packaged by the contentsmanager in a digital contents storing unit.
 19. The method for rightmanagement of digital contents according to claim 12, furthercomprising: allowing the contents manager to judge whether or not usageright available for the packaged digital contents is present in thecontents using device.
 20. The method for right management of digitalcontents according to claim 12, further comprising: allowing thecontents manager to judge whether or not to provide the packaged digitalcontents to the contents using device by judging whether or not thepackaged digital contents are already present in the contents usingdevice.